Loose-leaf check book



Jan. '29, 1924. 1,482,003

G. FRIEL "Loosn LEAF cnacx BOOK Filed {June 5. 1922 FIRSTN CHIC FIRST N CHIC Patented Jan. 29, 1924.

STATES a GRANT FRIEL, or CHICAGO, rumors.

' LOOSE-LEAF Application filed June 5,

To aZZ whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, GRANT FRIEL, citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Loose-Leaf Check Books, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to loose-leaf books and particularly to loose-leaf check-books. heretofore the stubs of check-books were tightly bound at their rear edges to the back, and in order to write upon a given stub, it was customary to push back those ahead of it, that had already been used, and hold them with the left hand While writing.

The object of my invention is to so attach the stubs of checks to the back of books that they can be turned back out of the way and lie against the opposite cover thereof, and leave the stub being written upon perfectly flat. This I accomplish by the means hereinafter fully described and as illustrated in the claim.

In the drawings:

' Figure 1 is a plan view of the back portion of a check-book, showing it open.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section taken on dotted line 2, 2, Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a transverse section taken on dotted line 3, 3, Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of one of the hooks embodying the principal feature of my invention.

The drawings illustrate a check-book having two covers, 10, and 11, connected by. a strip, 12, of the same material through the medium of strips of cloth fabric, 1 1, and 15, pasted thereto, both inside and outside.

The strip, 12, corresponds'in width to the thickness of the book and is of a length corresponding to the width of the same.

The checks and stubs, 16, of the checkbooks are usually printed 2, 3, and 5 to the page, and at equal distances from their rear edges, are provided with a plurality of apertures 17, 17. These openings are located in the same places on each stub and register with each other, so that when the leaves of checks are stacked, ready to be inserted between the covers of the check-book, said apertures, 17, will open one into the other. i

The means for securing these leaves in 1,482,003 PATENT, OFFICE.

CHECK Book.

1922. Serial No. 566,016.",

place consist of wire hooks, 18,18, one for each series of apertures 17 They are prac tically endless, and are arranged lengthwise on the leaves. They have one end flattened. and straightened to form a plate, 19, that extend transversely to the leaves and at right angles to the remainder of their lengths. Each of these straight flattened ends have their longitudinal edges provided with sharpened spurs or rivets, 20, 20, that are located, respectively, near where the flattened plate portion merges into the hooks and near their opposite extremities. These rivets '20 are made by slitting the edges of the fiat portion, 19, obliquely inward toward its center of length, and then bending the slit portions downward therefrom in a direction opposite to the hooks. The ends, 22, of the hooks opposite plates 19 are straightened and terminate in about the plane of said plate. These hooks are secured to the rear margins of cover 10 by placing the plate 19 parallel to the rear edge of the same and forcing the rivets down through the cover and fabrics 1 1 and 15 connecting the back-strip 12 thereto. The ends of the rivets are then clinched and securely clamp the plates, 19, in posi tion to the cover, 10, so that the rear segments of the book will be in the same transverse plane as the joint between the said cover and strip. 'VVhen this is done the back of the book is completed by pasting another strip of fabric, 21, over strip 14, and over the clinched ends of rivets 20, thus protecting the latter" and preventing their scratching the table'or desk when the check-book is being used.

In operation when the leaves are placed between the covers the straight ends of the hooks are threaded through the aperture 17 of the desired. number of leaves. The leaves will be retained in position because the free ends of the hooks terminate in the plane of plates 19, and cannot be removed except by depressing the aperture obvious it ma- .'be used in connection With other books-oi a; similar character;

What I claim as new is: V

In a loose-leaf book comprising covers, a transverse strip interposed between the rear edges of the same, and having an inside and an outside strip of fabric connecting the same, and a series of leaves of paper having a plurality of correspondingly located" apertures near the rear edge thereof, a plurality of longitudinally disposed ring shaped hooks one and each of which is flattened and straightened, and extends longitudinally therefrom and is provided with two integral sharpened spears on each longitudinal edge which are made byslittingsaid" edges, and which puncture and attached the same to the cover.

- In witness'whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 3rd day of June, 1922.

' GRANT FRIEL.

WVitnesses VIOLET VARDELL, F RAN-K D. THOMASON. 

